Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant: A handbook for primary teachers

Sara Alston, co-author of "The Inclusive Classroom," has written a new book that provides valuable support for primary teachers to work effectively with their teaching assistants to promote children's learning. It explains different TA roles, forms of intervention, and ways to work collaboratively, featuring quotes from TAs and solutions for when things don't go to plan.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A fresh book by Sara Alston, co-author of The Inclusive Classroom, is now available to assist primary teachers in working more successfully with their teaching assistants to improve children's learning. This book is particularly targeted at early career teachers and offers essential assistance for managing this crucial but potentially difficult relationship. Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant assists teachers in maintaining positive classroom relationships, including working with both experienced and inexperienced teaching assistants. It explains:

Different TA roles, including the classroom TA or learning support assistant, the special needs assistant, and 1:1 TAs.

Various forms of intervention, such as pre- and over-learning, and the importance of ensuring that all children access quality first teaching.

How to work collaboratively, including ways of sharing planning and feedback, differentiation strategies, promoting independence, and how to support each other beyond the classroom.

Featuring quotes from TAs about their classroom experiences and what would help them, as well as solutions for when things don't go as planned, this book will assist primary teachers in making a significant impact on learning while saving themselves time and reducing stress.

Weight: 294g
Dimension: 138 x 215 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472992567